Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner
German painter
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Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner (1702 in Ebbs, Tirol - 7 September 1761 in Augsburg) was an Austrian-German Rococo painter.
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Life
He was born Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner in Tyrol and he learned glass painting in Salzburg. He moved to Augsburg and worked as a glass painter. The ceiling painting in the Sanctuary of the Holy Cross of the former Klosters Mountains is considered as his largest and most important work.[1]
Works
- Ceiling frescoes of the Sanctuary of St. Mary of Mount Carmel in Baitenhausen in Meersburg on Lake Constance, 1760
- Ceiling frescoes in the nave of the Sanctuary of St. Maria Loreto in Westheim
- The Martyrdom of St. Venantius of Camerino
- Daily edification of a true Christian
- Mark the Evangelist writing
- The Holy. John I. and the Gothic King Theodoric
- Drawings of Bible pictures in Historia veteris (ac novi) Testamenti Iconibus Expressa
